Services for Young Children

Inclusion

Inclusion is the process of removing barriers to participation and learning so that everyone benefits fully from educational opportunities.

Inclusion:

  • is a process not a state

  • is characterised by a culture that not only respects but also welcomes diversity

  • involves active partnerships between parents and carers, education practitioners and specialist service staff.

Support for children with special educational needs


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Early Support

Provides co-ordinated intervention for disabled children up to the age of five and their families

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Hampshire Portage Service

Support for children with additional needs from birth to school age

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Area Inclusion Co-ordinator Service

Supporting the inclusive practice of all Hampshire early years and childcare practitioners

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Common Assessment Framework

A shared early assessment tool and process to help early identification of need and promote co-ordinated service provision

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Short Breaks

To enable children and young people with disabilities and/or additional needs to join in with safe, fun and interesting activities and to give parents/carers an opportunity to have a short break from caring.

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EMTAS

Hampshire's Ethnic Minority Traveller Achievement Service aims to raise the achievement of children with English as an additional language and those with ethnic minority backgrounds including Gypsy, Roma Travellers.